Melancholy men are of all others the most witty.

Quote by Aristotle

Topics: Witty Quotes

Learning is an ornament in prosperity, a refuge in adversity, and a provision in old...

Learning is an ornament in prosperity, a refuge in adversity, and a provision in old...

Hope is a waking dream.

Hope is a waking dream.

All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit,...

All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit,...

Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim...

Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim...

In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge.

In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge.

To die will be an awfully big adventure.

To die will be an awfully big adventure.

No excellent soul is exempt from a mixture of madness.

No excellent soul is exempt from a mixture of madness.

Happiness seems to require a modicum of external prosperity

Happiness seems to require a modicum of external prosperity

Teachers who educate children deserve more honor than parents who merely gave birth; for bare...

Teachers who educate children deserve more honor than parents who merely gave birth; for bare...

No notice is taken of a little evil, but when it increases it strikes the...

No notice is taken of a little evil, but when it increases it strikes the...

In nine cases out of ten, a woman had better show more affection than she...

In nine cases out of ten, a woman had better show more affection than she...

Even when laws have been written down, they ought not always to remain unaltered.

Even when laws have been written down, they ought not always to remain unaltered.

The mathematical sciences particularly exhibit order, symmetry, and limitation; and these are the greatest forms...

The mathematical sciences particularly exhibit order, symmetry, and limitation; and these are the greatest forms...

Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.

Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.

The mass of mankind are evidently slavish in their tastes, preferring a life suitable to...

The mass of mankind are evidently slavish in their tastes, preferring a life suitable to...

Education is the best provision for old age.

Education is the best provision for old age.

Hence poetry is something more philosophic and of graver import than history, since its statements...

Hence poetry is something more philosophic and of graver import than history, since its statements...

There is nothing that strengthens a nation like reading of a nation's own history, whether...

There is nothing that strengthens a nation like reading of a nation's own history, whether...

The public history of modern art is the story of conventional people not knowing what...

The public history of modern art is the story of conventional people not knowing what...

For the first time in the history of the world, every human being is now...

For the first time in the history of the world, every human being is now...